What is recorded here
Indicated is a large fairy fort on a steep Mayo slope, holding a hidden underground passage inside its broken earth rings. Cattle still force gaps through the ancient banks, treating human history as merely a suggestion rather than a boundary. The site resists final explanation because visibility and memory both fail it, leaving only the strange certainty that it is still alive beneath the pasture.
In pasture near the top of a moderately steep W-facing slope. A large subcircular area (int. diams. 48m N-S; 44m E-W) is enclosed by an inner earthen bank (max. int. H 0.5m; Wth 3.5m at S to 6m at N and ENE; ext. H 1.2m at S to 1.9m at N) which has been reduced to a scarp at E (H 1.2m) and W (H 1.6m). A flat-bottomed fosse (base Wth 3.5m at N to 7m at S) runs outside the inner bank except between E and ESE where it is disturbed by later field walls. An outer earthen bank (int. H over fosse 0.9-1.3m; Wth 4-6m; ext. H 0.6m at ENE to 1.1m at W) runs outside the fosse. It has also been disturbed by later field walls between ENE and SSE and a later field wall (H 1.3m; Wth 1.8m) runs on top of this bank from SSE to SW. Traces of a second fosse (Wth 2m) and a partially dug-out third, outer bank (int. H 0.5m; Wth 4m; ext. H 1.3m survive between WSW and WNW. All the enclosing banks are lightly overgrown, partially denuded and are breached by narrow livestock gaps. The interior slopes slightly down to W and contains a Man-made underground passage (MA070-121002-) in the NE sector.
Date of visit: 12-05-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
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